A World of Speculation

Good humor wins a point

Good humor wins a point This from Teresa Nielsen Hayden, the Tor editor who blogged on the rejection reactions earlier this week. She reports in her blog Making Light: Nudge note that a writer sent an anniversary card to her manuscript asking how it was enjoying the...

Rejection again

It’s ironic, after my post a couple of days ago about rejections, that I received one today, from the imprint of a major publisher, saying, “No, but . . . .” It’s amazing what a difference there is between “yes, but . . .” and...

Onion Dome Gets a Notice

The Onion Dome been given a big responsibility by the folks over at the Christianity Today weblog: As many Eastern Orthodox readers often point out, any time Weblog notes a news item on an Orthodox church, Weblog doesn’t know much beyond the basics of Eastern...

A New Author

I went to see David Farris this evening, author of Lie Still, a literary suspense novel. (Since it was at Powell’s Books in downtown Portland, I thought it only appropriate to link to Powell’s rather than Amazon.) He said he worked on this, his first...

Read the Onion Dome

The new Onion Dome is posted. We’ve got a new writer this week, Alexander Lebedeff, Our Man in Moscow, who has discovered a new twist on adolescent rebellion. In the meantime, our Intrepid Editor reprises a piece about way cool bumper stickers, Marie Moffitt...